Robert in Seattle

Very cool story. Uruguayan filmmaker, Fede Alvarez, posted a short piece (under 5 minutes) on YouTube a month ago called “Ataque de Panico!” (Panic Attack!). It features a giant robot invasion of Montevideo (the capital of Uruguay). The entire piece was produced on a massive Hollywood budget of… $300! And it’s gotten well over 1.5 million views so far.

It was so impressive that Alvarez started getting e-mails almost immediately from Hollywood producers about some seriously big projects. And in the last week or so, Alvarez apparently inked a deal with Sam Raimi (Spiderman) to produce a full-length sci-fi feature to be shot in South America. A great story on how computers and the Internet keep changing old ways of thinking and working.

Tags: Ataque de Panico!, Montevideo, Robertinseattle, Sam Raimi, Spiderman, Uruguay, YouTube

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